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BREAKING: DTCC launches its tokenization service, opening $30 trillion in assets and debuting 25 securities across the Canton and Besu networks. @CantonNetwork
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Hong Kong Gold Exchange-backed gold token XGZ is integrating Chainlink CCIP, enabling it to move across blockchains. @chainlink
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Jupiter Lend took in a record $249,074 in fees on October 24, its biggest day since launch and 1.73 times Kamino's $144,190. It is also the largest lender on Solana, with $972.32M in active loans. @JupiterExchange
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DTCC, whose depository custodies over $114 trillion, has its head of digital assets speaking at Stellar's Meridian conference in Lisbon on October 28 and 29. BNY, U.S. Bank, Cantor Fitzgerald, Meta and General Motors are also on the lineup. @StellarOrg
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Firelight, the DeFi cover protocol on Flare, now holds 36.05% of all FXRP in circulation, more than any other app. That is 51.74M FXRP, Flare's wrapped XRP, staked to back onchain cover for DeFi platforms. @FlareNetworks
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EtherFi's card has been used for 13,109,546 purchases, more than twice the 5,480,773 made with the Gnosis Pay and MetaMask cards combined. Its 119,727 wallets have spent $1.037B on the card. @ether_fi
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Arbitrum has 11,676,419 stablecoin holders, 2,820,191 more than Coinbase's Base. That is also more than 3.5 times the 3,327,165 holders on Optimism, another major Ethereum layer 2 network. @arbitrum
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OKX, the exchange with over 120 million customers, has brought Ethena's $4.58B USDe to its X Layer network and OKX Wallet. It is the first time OKX Wallet users can access Ethena's products, starting with Aave v3 on X Layer. @ethena
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MapleStory, the Nexon game franchise with more than 250 million players, runs MapleStory Universe on Henesys, Nexon's own Avalanche L1. Henesys has processed 188,853,679 transactions from 3,565,058 addresses. @avax
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BNY, which oversees $63.4 trillion in assets, will speak alongside Intercontinental Exchange, Robinhood and Tradeweb at Ripple's Swell, which opens Tuesday in New York. Ripple expects 1,500+ attendees and 100+ speakers over three days at The Shed. @XRP @Ripple
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson calls Filecoin one of several core partners that are "part of the story of how Midnight is going to evolve." Midnight's node operators include Google Cloud, MoneyGram and Worldpay. @Filecoin
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Ult, the trading app Cronos Labs built on Cronos, lists tokenized Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, Microsoft and Amazon stock, plus the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, gold and crude oil. Users fund one cash balance with Apple Pay, crypto or an exchange account. @CronosNetwork
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Kaspa's block reward is set to fall to 1.94454365 KAS from 2.06017223 KAS around November 4, one of 12 monthly steps that halve its issuance every year. Bitcoin's reward halves once every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years. @kaspaunchained
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The US Treasury market, with $31.83 trillion in marketable debt, now has 14 new Pyth indices on Pyth Pro. They track constant-maturity par yields and discount factors from 2 to 30 years, with 14 more from 4 to 52 weeks coming soon. @PythNetwork
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BlackRock, which manages $15.5 trillion, developed the strategies behind three of the seven Ondo Intelligent Portfolios. Less than a month after launch, the portfolios hold more than $30M, up 46% in a single week. @Ondo
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Traders paid $5.79M in fees on Lighter in the 30 days to October 25, more than on GMX and nearly 24 times dYdX's $242,647. Lighter's fees rose 10.79% from the previous 30 days, while Hyperliquid's perps fees fell 15.39%. @Lighter_xyz
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Midnight processed a record 49,229 transactions on October 25, more than double the 20,445 on privacy coin Zcash that day. Its mainnet has now logged 954,434 transactions in total. @MidnightNtwrk
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Aero paid $1.36M to AERO stakers in the past 7 days, more than Ethereum and Coinbase's Base network earned combined. The two networks took in $1.05M in revenue over the same week. Aero is the merged Aerodrome and Velodrome exchange. @aeroxyz
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Cetus Protocol launches Cetus Skills, enabling AI agents to execute swaps and manage liquidity on Sui through Claude Code. @SuiNetwork
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USDT0, the cross-chain version of Tether's $182.34B USDT, has moved more than $115B between blockchains on LayerZero, averaging over $103K per transfer. On Stellar, where it launched September 2, its volume passed $200M in under 10 weeks. @LayerZero_Core
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Ethena Pay adds a toggle to switch how exchange rates appear on card payments, with display preferences saved for each currency. @ethena xitter.cf/EthenaPay/status/21142…
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